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- catalog abstract ""Development Anthropology is a detailed examination of anthropology's many uses in international development projects. Written from a practitioner's standpoint and containing numerous examples and case studies, the book provides students with a comprehensive overview of what development anthropologists do, how they do it, and what problems they encounter in their work. The book outlines the evolution of both applied anthropology and international development and their involvement with each other throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how development projects work and how anthropology is used in project design, implementation, and evaluation. The final section of the book considers how both development and anthropology must change in order to become more effective. An appendix provides practical advice to students considering a career in development anthropology. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Anthropology online. net".
- catalog contributor b12246336.
- catalog created "2002".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002".
- catalog description ""Development Anthropology is a detailed examination of anthropology's many uses in international development projects. Written from a practitioner's standpoint and containing numerous examples and case studies, the book provides students with a comprehensive overview of what development anthropologists do, how they do it, and what problems they encounter in their work. The book outlines the evolution of both applied anthropology and international development and their involvement with each other throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how development projects work and how anthropology is used in project design, implementation, and evaluation. The final section of the book considers how both development and anthropology must change in order to become more effective. An appendix provides practical advice to students considering a career in development anthropology. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Anthropology and Development -- Anthropology as a Science of Discovery -- A Different Way of Seeing -- How Anthropologists Work -- Development as a Cross-Cultural Encounter -- The Rise of the Development Industry -- A World Out of Balance -- Development as a Global Project -- Today's Development Industry -- The Evolution of Development Policy and Practice -- Putting Anthropology to Work -- Anthropology and the Colonial Past -- Development of an Applied Perspective in U.S. Anthropology -- Varieties of Anthropological Application -- Academic, Applied, and Practicing Anthropology -- Anthropological Practice -- Development Anthropology Today -- The Dialectics of Application -- Development Projects Examined -- The Nature of Development Projects -- Characteristics of Projects -- The Structure and Life Cycle of Projects -- Approaches to Project Planning -- Project Development as an Emergent Problem -- Anthropology and Project Development -- Information in Project Development -- Project Levels -- Integrating Project Levels -- Identifying Project Stakeholders -- Learning About Stakeholder Communities -- Managing Information Gathering -- Framing Projects -- Project Purposes -- Project Strategies -- Project Sustainability -- Local Participation -- Predicting Project Impact -- Managing Projects -- Management Needs in Project Development -- Organizational Culture -- Decisionmaking -- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution -- Technical Assistance and Counterpart Relationships -- Assessing Projects -- The Purposes of Assessment.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-336) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 345 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Development anthropology.".
- catalog identifier "0813309840".
- catalog isFormatOf "Development anthropology.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press,".
- catalog relation "Development anthropology.".
- catalog subject "301 21".
- catalog subject "Applied anthropology.".
- catalog subject "GN397.5 .N65 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Anthropology and Development -- Anthropology as a Science of Discovery -- A Different Way of Seeing -- How Anthropologists Work -- Development as a Cross-Cultural Encounter -- The Rise of the Development Industry -- A World Out of Balance -- Development as a Global Project -- Today's Development Industry -- The Evolution of Development Policy and Practice -- Putting Anthropology to Work -- Anthropology and the Colonial Past -- Development of an Applied Perspective in U.S. Anthropology -- Varieties of Anthropological Application -- Academic, Applied, and Practicing Anthropology -- Anthropological Practice -- Development Anthropology Today -- The Dialectics of Application -- Development Projects Examined -- The Nature of Development Projects -- Characteristics of Projects -- The Structure and Life Cycle of Projects -- Approaches to Project Planning -- Project Development as an Emergent Problem -- Anthropology and Project Development -- Information in Project Development -- Project Levels -- Integrating Project Levels -- Identifying Project Stakeholders -- Learning About Stakeholder Communities -- Managing Information Gathering -- Framing Projects -- Project Purposes -- Project Strategies -- Project Sustainability -- Local Participation -- Predicting Project Impact -- Managing Projects -- Management Needs in Project Development -- Organizational Culture -- Decisionmaking -- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution -- Technical Assistance and Counterpart Relationships -- Assessing Projects -- The Purposes of Assessment.".
- catalog title "Development anthropology : encounters in the real world / Riall W. Nolan.".
- catalog type "text".